| 释义 |
▪ I. delight, n.|dɪˈlaɪt|
Forms: 3–6 delit, (3 delijt), 4–6 delyt(e, -lite, (5 delytte, 6 dellyte), 6– delight.
[ME. delit, a. OF. delit (-eit), (= Pr. deliet, Sp. deleite, It. diletto), f. stem of deliter vb. The etymological delite is found as late as 1590, but earlier in 16th c. it had generally been supplanted by delight, an erroneous spelling after light, flight, etc.]
1. a. The fact or condition of being delighted; pleasure, joy, or gratification felt in a high degree.
a1225Ancr. R. 272 So sone so me..let þene lust gon inward & delit waxen. a1240Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 201 Þe muchele delit of þine swetnesse. c1340Cursor M. 8164 (Fairf.) Þai hailsed him wiþ grete delite. c1386Chaucer Prol. 335 To lyuen in delit was euere his wone, For he was Epicurus owene sone. 1559Mirr. Mag., Dk. Clarence xxxix, In study set his hole delite. 1610Shakes. Temp. iii. ii. 145 Sounds, and sweet aires, that giue delight and hurt not. 1736Butler Anal. i. iii. 72 The gratification itself of every natural passion must be attended with delight. 1793Coleridge Poems, The Rose, He gazed! he thrilled with deep delight! 1860Tyndall Glac. i. v. 38, I had read with delight Coleridge's poem.
b. Phr. to take or have delight (in a thing, in doing, to do).
† to have delight was formerly used as = to desire, Fr. avoir envie (see quots. 1470, 1477).
c1230Hali Meid. 7 And habbeð mare delit þerin þen anie oðre habbeð i likinge of þe worlde. a1300Cursor M. 23339 (Cott.) Bot suld þai haf a gret delite, To se þam setlid in þair site. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1626 The nobill king..Had gret delyte this Wallace for to se. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 1, I had delyte & axed to rede some good historye. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour D vj, The delite that men take in the savour and etyng of them. a1569A. Kingsmill Confl. Satan (1578) 49 When he hath a delite in that that he doeth. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxxvii. 1 As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nature's Paradox 12 [He] took more delight in Arms than at his Book. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle 28 Gardening was what I always took delight in. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 184 The branch of knowledge..in which he takes the greatest delight.
2. Anything in which one takes delight, or which affords delight; an object of delight; a source of great pleasure or joy.
a1225Ancr. R. 102 Þes cos..is a swetnesse & a delit of heorte. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 269 Bot in his delytis settes his hert fast. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xv. 66 It es a place of delytez. 1598Shakes. Merry W. v. v. 158 Why, Sir Iohn, do you thinke..that euer the deuill could haue made you our delight? 1697Dryden Virg. Past. v. 65 Daphnis, the Fields Delight. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 124 Be Homer's works your study and delight. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 396 The poetry and eloquence of Greece had been the delight of Raleigh and Falkland.
3. The quality (in objects) which causes delight; quality or faculty of delighting; charm, delightfulness. Now only poet.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1199 Dido, With sadyl red enbroudit with delyt. 1500–20Dunbar Thistle & Rose 145 No flour is so perfyt, So full of vertew, plesans and delyt. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cii. 12 Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. 1662Gerbier Princ. 38 The Louver at Paris..with the delight of the annexed Tuilleries. 1804Wordsw. Poem, She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight.
4. lumps of delight: a former name for Turkish delight (see Turkish a. 2 b).
1870[see Turkish a. 1]. 1875L. M. Alcott Eight Cousins v, Phebe..crunched the ‘Lump of Delight’ tucked into her mouth. 1894Daily News 4 June 7/7 The Turkish, or rather Greek, sweetmeat known as Rahat Loukoums, or ‘Lumps of Delight’.
† Hence delight-taking.
1619W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 468 Pleasure or delight-taking in the partie loued.
▪ II. delight, v.|dɪˈlaɪt|
Forms: 3–7 delite, 4–6 delyte, (4 delytte, 4–5 dilyte, 6 delyt), 6 delyght, 6– delight.
[ME. delite-n, a. OF. delitier (-leitier, -leter, -liter) = Pr., Sp. delectar, Sp., Pg. deleitar, It. delettare, dilettare:—L. dēlectāre to allure, attract, delight, charm, please, freq. of dēlicĕre to entice away, allure: cf. delicious. The current erroneous spelling after light, etc. arose in the 16th c., and prevailed about 1575: the Bible of 1611 occasionally retained delite.]
1. a. trans. To give great pleasure or enjoyment to; to please highly. Frequently in pass. (const. with, at, † in, or with infin.). Also absol.
c1300K. Alis. 5802 So hy ben delited in that art That wery ne ben hy neuere cert. c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 266 But for I..was so besy you to delyte. 1535Fisher Wks. (1876) 366 The loue of this game deliteth him so muche. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 151, I am mervelously delighted with merrie conceites. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. (1676) 70 The stateliness of Houses..delighteth the eye. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 395 The Italians are greatly delighted in Pictures. 1704Pope Spring 67 If Windsor-shades delight the matchless maid. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 496 Charles..was delighted with an adviser who had a hundred pleasant..things to say. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxii. 371 If the money belonged to me, I should be delighted to keep it. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 476, I was quite delighted at this notion. 1904L. T. Meade Love Triumphant v, I mean to go to London..to meet my equals. I shall dazzle, I shall delight. 1908G. F. Atherton Gorgeous Isle iii, There had been much to delight and awe.
b. refl. = 2.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3086 Ȝyf þou delyte þe oftyn stoundes, Yn horsys, haukys, or yn houndes. c1340Cursor M. 1560 (Fairf.) A-mong caymys kyn, þat delitet ham al to syn. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 29 Lot..Dilytede him in drinke. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 1 A gentylman..whiche gretly delited hym in alle vertuouse..thynges. 1611Bible Ps. cxix. 16, I will delight my selfe in thy statutes. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 199 He has many Elephants with whose Majestie he greatly delights himselfe. 1742Collins Eclog. iii. 36 Fair happy maid!.. With love delight thee. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. v. 95 A life of pleasure—to delight himself and to be the delight of others.
2. intr. (for refl.) To be highly pleased, take great pleasure, rejoice:
a. in or to do (anything).
a1225Ancr. R. 52 Eue..iseih hine ueir, & ueng to deliten i þe biholdunge. a1325Prose Psalter l[i]. 17 Þou ne shalt nouȝt deliten in sacrifices. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 415 Yet hath he made lewde folke delyte To serue yow. a1450Le Morte Arth. 3717 Suche we haue delyted in. 1535John ap Rice in Four C. Eng. Lett. 33 He delited moche in playing at dice and cardes. 1548Hall Chron. 201 b, An Inne, wherein he delighted muche to be. 1605Shakes. Macb. ii. iii. 55 The labour we delight in physicks paine. 1611Bible Ps. lxviii. 30 Scatter thou the people that delite in warre. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 16 They delight to dawbe and make their skin glister with grease. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 254 ⁋1 There are no Books which I more delight in than Travels. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 145 The obsolete titles delighted in by the Latin writers. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 39 We know the kind of man whom this system delights to honour.
b. absol. (without const.).
1393Gower Conf. III. 243 And she..So ferforth made him to delite Through lust. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. x. ii, Divers persons in sundry wyse delyght.
c. transf. of things.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 33 b, The Beane delighteth in riche and wel dounged ground. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. iii. 34 The Manatee delights to live in brackish Water. 1849Johnston Exp. Agric. 116 The hop delights in woollen rags.
†3. trans. To enjoy greatly: = to delight in.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 63 The whiche makithe hym to desire and delite foule plesaunce of the synne of lechery. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. (1641) 34/2 Brave-minded Mars..Delighting nought but Battails, blood, and murder. 1602W. Basse Eleg. i. 3 Who lou'd no riot, tho delighted sport. 1618J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) II. 285 Shee often went with her husband part of those hunting journeys, delighting her crosbowe. |